ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Psychoanalytic criticism adopts the methods of “reading” employed by Freud and later theorists to interpret texts. It argues that literary texts, like dreams, express the secret unconscious desires and anxieties of the author, that a literary work is a manifestation of the author’s own neuroses.

Detailed explanation-2: -Consciousness is the awareness of the self in space and time and is defined as human awareness to both internal and external stimuli. Sigmund Freud divided human consciousness into three levels of awareness: the conscious, preconscious, and unconscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -In psychoanalytic theory, the unconscious mind consists of ideas and drives that have been subject to the mechanism of Repression: anxiety-producing impulses in childhood are barred from consciousness, but do not cease to exist, and exert a constant pressure in the direction of consciousness.

Detailed explanation-4: -The key concepts which are used in Psychoanalytic criticism include but not limited to unconscious, repression, sublimation, super-ego, id, Infantile sexuality, Oedipus complex, libido, oral, anal, and phallic, transference, projection, Freudian slip, dream work, displacement, etc.